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Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series)

Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series)
By Richard D Howland, Mary J Mycek, Richard A Harvey, Pamela C Champe

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Now in full color, Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology, Third Edition enables rapid review and assimilation of large amounts of complex information about the essentials of medical pharmacology. As in previous editions, Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology features an outline format, over 500 full-color illustrations, cross-references to other titles in the series, and over 125 review questions. New features include: / All chapters completely revised and updated with the latest in pharmacologic theory and therapies. New and expanded material on steroid hormones, poisons, drugs for obesity, osteoporosis, erectile dysfunction, anti-inflammatory drugs, and autacoids. / Innovative Concept Maps, a tool for visualizing the connections between concepts. Material is represented in a hierarchical fashion with the most general concepts at the top of the map and the more specific, less general concepts arranged beneath. / End of Chapter Summaries of the most important/clinically significant testable information on the USMLE Step 1 Examination. Students who are preparing for standard courses or examinations (USMLE, COMLEX) will find this remarkable book "must read" material to master pharmacology essentials.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #7679 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-08-01
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 559 pages

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Study guide providing more illustrations than previous edition, c1992. This is a 'Millenium Update' of the c1997 version. Cross-referenced to Harvey and Champe's Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry, 2nd edition. For students preparing for exams. Softcover. DNLM: Pharmacology--examination questions

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Solid Buy4
This book is a good book to use when starting to learn pharmaceutical nomenclature, mechanisms, and applications. This like the Lippincott's Biochemistry; it has plenty of diagrams and charts to help with the sometimes boring material/topic. However, this book easily teaches main medications to administer.

Great Illustrations and a Helpful Pharmacology Overview4
LIR Pharm seems to be one of those books that everyone uses in medical school. It's really not short or quick to read at over 500 pages. But the fact that the authors keep all of the chapters at about 10-15 pages makes each one a fairly easy and digestible read. As others have already said, the greatest strength of the book by far is the excellent illustrations. I think the book is worth buying for the illustrations alone, especially since they are in color in the third edition. Also, I really loved the little cartoon people that they use for the figures that show the side effects. However, I don't think this book is detailed enough for a medical school pharmacology class. (Well, at least it wasn't for mine!) What I found to be really helpful was to read the chapter in this book first, and then read the corresponding chapter in Katzung or Goodman and Gilman.

One thing about this book annoyed me a lot, and that was the huge number of typos that are present throughout. You would think that surely by the third edition, the editors could find them all and fix them. Most of the time, the typos were merely annoying, but there was one typo on page 237 that was outright wrong. It says that danaparoid is a mixture of the sulfates of heparin, dermatan, and chondroitin, but it should be HEPARAN, dermatan, and chondroitin. Danaparoid doesn't contain heparin!

Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology4
An excellent quick review. This book is stream lined, easy to comprehend and fairly good with the number of drugs covered. It should be coupled with a more comprehensive text. I would have had a much more difficult time with my Pharmacology class without it. There is not enough chemistry, but then again it is a review. Overall - well worth adding to your library.